To understand ourselves needs no authority either of yesterday or of a thousand years because we are living things, always moving, flowing, never resting.

Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.

Passion is a rather frightening thing because if you have passion you don't know where it will take you.

It is only the innocent mind which knows what love is, and the innocent mind can live in the world which is not innocent.

virtue can flower only when there is freedom.

space and silence are necessary because it is only when the mind is alone, uninfluenced, untrained, not held by infinite varieties of experience, that it can come upon something totally new.

A man who knows what it is to have humility is a vain man.

I think women need kindness more than love. When one human being is kind to another it's a very deep matter.

Never forget that children are at the heart of everything we do. Respect them, listen to them, talk to them as equals, and care about them.

Actually,I am a failed anorexic. I have anorexic thinking, but I can't seem to muster the behavoir

The cost of praising someone is nil - but every psychological study shows the payoff is huge.

It just seems like musicians want to sell a few records and put out a perfume line, and I think it's so sad that there are so many musicians who don't want to change the world.

You cannot conceive the many without the one.

Art and music shine a light of meaning on ordinary life, and through them we are able to confront the things that trouble us and to find consolation and peace in their presence.

I just think that we have more opportunity to have a bit more of that banter between each other. And, given that the two women are so different, there's really something to play with.

I don't want to embarrass any other catcher by comparing him to Johnny Bench.

Unsolicited surprise requests from strangers are essentially guaranteed to be met with a negative response.